About the Role

As aManager, Global Supply Planning Operations, you will lead cross-functional projects

and initiatives that advance GSP’s strategic and operational priorities. You will be

responsible for translating business objectives into structured project plans, mobilizing

cross-functional teams, driving execution, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring

initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

You will serve as aproject leader and integrator, bringing together partners across Global

Supply Planning, Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, Technology, and other

teams to solve complex operational challenges. You will establish clear scope, milestones,

roles, governance, and decision-making mechanisms while creating visibility to progress

and escalating issues when needed.

The role combinesproject leadership with process improvement and analytical

problem solving. You will use data and reporting to identify opportunities, measure

outcomes, and support decisions, while also helping strengthen GSP's operating routines,

processes, and tools. You will lead multiple workstreams and initiatives simultaneously

and influence teams without formal authority.

Core Responsibilities

Project & Program Management:Lead cross-functional projects and workstreams from

definition through implementation. Translate business objectives into clear scope,

deliverables, milestones, workplans, ownership, and success measures. Maintain

momentum and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership:Mobilize and lead project teams across GSP,

Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, Technology, Data, and other partner

organizations. Establish clear roles and working norms, facilitate productive discussions,

and align teams around common outcomes.

Project Governance & Execution:Establish effective project governance, including

working-team routines, leadership updates, decision forums, action tracking, and

escalation paths. Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and changes

in scope.

Stakeholder Management & Communication:Build strong relationships with business

partners and leaders across functions and geographies. Develop clear project

communications, executive updates, recommendations, and decision materials. Influence

without formal authority and navigate differing priorities to drive alignment.

Process & Operating Model Improvement:Identify opportunities to simplify and

standardize GSP processes and ways of working. Lead development and implementation

of scalable processes, operating routines, SOPs, playbooks, and governance mechanisms

that improve execution across the organization.

Change & Implementation:Partner with stakeholders to move solutions from design into

execution. Develop implementation approaches, readiness plans, communications,

documentation, and adoption mechanisms to ensure changes are successfully embedded

into day-to-day operations.

Problem Solving & Decision Support:Structure ambiguous business problems, identify

root causes, evaluate alternatives, and facilitate decisions. Bring together business

context, stakeholder perspectives, and quantitative insights to develop practical

recommendations.

Data & Analytics:Use data and analytics to inform project priorities, evaluate

opportunities, establish baselines, and measure business outcomes. Partner with

analytics and technology teams to define reporting and measurement requirements and

ensure appropriate visibility to performance.

Continuous Improvement:Identify recurring operational pain points and lead sustainable

solutions that reduce manual effort, clarify ownership, improve execution, and increase

organizational effectiveness.

The role is performed on -site in office 4 days per week from our Downtown MN campus.

About you:

•Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

•4–7 years of experience in project/program management, supply chain,

operations, business transformation, consulting, or related roles.

•Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects from

definition through implementation, including managing scope, milestones, risks,

dependencies, and deliverables.

•Strong ability to lead project teams and drive outcomes without formal authority,

including navigating competing priorities and creating alignment across

stakeholders.

•Experience establishing project governance, facilitating working teams, managing

action and decision logs, and communicating progress to leadership.

•Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to bring

structure to ambiguous or complex business challenges.

•Demonstrated ability to translate strategy and business needs into executable plans

and sustainable operating processes.

•Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to synthesize

complex information into clear recommendations and leadership-level updates.

•Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to identify opportunities,

evaluate performance, and measure outcomes.

•Experience with reporting, BI platforms, planning systems, SQL, data lakes, or

similar analytical tools is beneficial; deep technical expertise is not required.

•Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance day-to-day execution with

broader project objectives.

•Ability to operate independently while partnering effectively with glob